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Commentaire de Ambellina

Edit edit: Now, requires at least 3 red gems. 3 new meta gem cuts have been added and the patterns are world drops.Agile Shadowspirit for the agility classesBurning Shadowspirit for the caster DPS classesReverberating Shadowspirit for the strength classesAs these are world drops, expect to pay an extremely high price for them unless you have a friend or guild member to do it for you.

Commentaire de adezero

more blues than reds now?

that means as dps, you'll have to use all purple gems and one green. that's a lot of hit gems

Commentaire de Drowned

It seems item lvl 346/359 pre-raid gear will have 9 or 10 sockets and the gear set I picked for my warlock has 4 x blue, 2 x yellow, 3 x red and 1 x prismatic socket. If you socket +40 int gems in all three red + prismatic sockets, +20 haste +20 hit gems in two yellow sockets, +40 hit gems in three blue sockets and one +20 int +20 hit gem in the last blue socket, you'll get the meta socket bonus. Compared to more optimal gemming, you'll lose 100 int and gain 100 hit.

Commentaire de flawlless

Commentaire de Ambellina

Mastery is TERRIBLE for a few classes to stack, and nobody really knows how it would fair off with some other classes. Hence why not.

Commentaire de Chaoslux

This meta gem will return to it's WotLK version of "Need At Least 2 Blue Gems" , making it again the favored dps meta-gem in the game for the next two years "soon". Some specs may or may not prefer the Ember Shadowspirit gem since mana is limited and Intellect is a far better stat.

For historical purpose in the future: This meta-gem during the Cataclysm beta changed from "At Least 2 Blue" to "More Blue than Yellow" and all the way to the painfully restricting "More Blue than Red", which made it, for a period of time, a very very bad metagem.

Commentaire de Znuff

The Shadow Priest community disagrees with Mastery.

Commentaire de hannibalektr

The "needs more blue then red" simply makes this useless to me. The worst part is, it was the only meta I really needed. Great! another nerf for anyone who stacks agi.

Commentaire de casanova99

Purple gems don't work if your wondering, get those +40 hit for physical dps classes

Commentaire de sorsa

Hi

If you are like me and hate blue gems, there's a simple trick to meeting the requirements of the meta. Avoid as much hit rating from gear as possible and instead gem a good chunk of Rigid hit gems to meet your hit cap. This helps you keep your dps stats 'pure' as in not having to sacrifice any stat budget on non essential other blue gem stats, such as stamina on purple gems.

If you are geting overcapped with rigid gems, you can also reforge some hit rating.

Commentaire de sorsa

Hi, if you are like me and hate blue gems, there's a simple trick to meeting the requirements of the meta. Avoid as much hit rating from gear as possible and instead gem a good chunk of Rigid hit gems to meet your hit cap. This helps you keep your dps stats 'pure' as in not having to sacrifice any stat budget on non essential other blue gem stats, such as stamina on purple gems.

If you are geting overcapped with rigid gems, you can also reforge some hit rating.

Commentaire de sorsa

Hi, if you are like me and hate blue gems, there's a simple trick to meeting the requirements of the meta. Avoid as much hit rating from gear as possible and instead gem a good chunk of blue Rigid hit gems to meet your hit cap. This helps you keep your dps stats 'pure' as in not having to sacrifice any stat budget on non essential other blue gem stats, such as stamina on purple gems.

If you are geting overcapped with rigid gems, you can also reforge some hit rating.

Commentaire de sorsa

Hi, if you hate blue gems like I do, there's a simple trick to meet the meta requirement. Avoid as much hit rating on gear as possible and instead gem a good chunk of hit with blue Rigid gems. This helps you keep you dps stats 'pure' by avoiding other non-essential stats common for blue and purple gems.

If you are geting overcapped with rigid gems, you can also reforge out some hit rating.

Commentaire de Niex

As of Right Now Melee, Directed Mostly If Only To Retribution Paladins At the Moment Have 2 Choices For a Meta Gem

2 Diamant flambeciel foudroyant ( The Replacement When This Happened in WoTLK, I Havent Done Enough Research To See if ITs Still Viable However Haste> Critical Strike ( For Ret) As of Current Gameplay)

Commentaire de Malinq

Destructive Shadowspirit Diamond is a great substitute for now until this meta's requirements get changed back

Commentaire de Pwntiff

The Shadow Priest community disagrees with Mastery.

As do the Thunder Turkeys. Crit and haste affect all of a Druid's rotation. Mastery only affects at best half of it.

Commentaire de Krimsen13

As a hunter this is a terrible gem. I mean, it's good, but compared to a relentless this definitely a poor man's version. The crit is very viable, yes, but the agility has so much better itemization for hunters, shamans, rogues and druids since it also adds the dodge and atk power. I do so miss my Relentless, but I hope that perhaps more metas will come out with epic gem cuts. That is if there are going to be any epic gem cuts.

Commentaire de lionelthehun

on the 4.0.6 ptr the meta gem requirement has been changed. it is now 3 red gems.

from 4.0.6 patch notes

Jewelcrafting

Meta gems with the Chaotic and Relentless prefixes now have a requirement of 3 red gems.

Commentaire de lionelthehun

in the new patch theres a new meta i guess according to the patch notes.

New meta gems have been added: Agile Shadowspirit Diamond (Agility/3% critical damage), Reverberating Shadowspirit Diamond (Strength/3% critical damage), and Burning Shadowspirit Diamond (Intellect/3% critical damage). These new recipes are unbound and can drop from any Cataclysm creature. The new meta gems have a requirement of 3 red gems equipped.

Commentaire de Voroshilov

Nope Epicskillz, not 2 blues. Zarhym stated:

The note hasn't been added yet, but we haven't forgotten. Here's what you're likely to see in the patch notes:

* Meta gems with the Chaotic and Relentless prefixes now have a requirement of 3 red gems.

Commentaire de bcldd

Well they changeing back to need red gems instead of blue... which for the second time makes it go grey for me. thank you blizzard for changeing all the time

Commentaire de DarkSzero

Even though this meta is changing to require 3 red gems instead of more blue gems than red gems, this one won't become the most used gem.The reason is, along with the change, patch 4.0.6 will add new meta gems that gives 3% increased critical damage and a Strength/Agility/Intellect, one for each stat.

Commentaire de Blastank

Seems that meta gems are now merged together into Shadowspirit Diamonds, instead of two separate Sky and Earth Diamonds. Maybe the next expansion will have another Shadow Diamond?

Commentaire de jerilynne

I have the mats and the pattern, why can I not make this?

Commentaire de ne14fuun

This may be a stupid question. When it changes to 3 red. Is that any combination of red? Meaning purple, orange, and red?

Commentaire de Sumira

Yes

Commentaire de Wizaki21

Yay! Thanks Blizz, can't wait to completely re-gem.... again....

Commentaire de PerkerOfWar

I'm don't understand what exactly is meant here. By "blue" and "red" gems, do they mean the actual color of said gems, or whether or not these gems belong under the "blue socket" category, "red socket" category, etc...

My character doesn't get the stat boosts it should from this CSD, despite having all the blue sockets of my equips filled with gems that apparently count as "blue gems". They're purple actually, but they still seem to count as blue. In total, my character has 3 blue gems socketed into items and 2 red ones. However, the CSD still doesn't "activate".

Does anyone know what's wrong? Do the gems I have to use actually be blue?

Commentaire de DuffHB

As of patch notes from 4.0.6 this gem now requires 3 red gems instead of more blue than red gems.I believe this is BiS meta for melee DPS, since strenght and agility gems are red which makes it very easy to scale with gear :)

Edit: yeah, thank you Falcizzle, this meta is actually not the BiS now.

Commentaire de Falcizzle

With the new addition of primary-statistic meta gems, this gem has been left in the dirt.

Even though the new requirement of "3 Red gems"makes this meta a better choice for a physical DPS than the Fleet Shadowspirit Diamond, it still pales in comparison to a primary-stat meta in almost all situations.

While the Hit Rating or Haste Rating to boots may benefit an individual in a unique situation, I am under the impression that most physical DPS wishing to gear up for PvP will be going for a run speed enchant on their boots and using their stat-specific meta gems instead of a Fleet Shadowspirit Diamond or a Chaotic Shadowspirit Diamond.

In conclusion, the new requirements make this gem nonviable in all aspects of the game if you play a physical DPS class, and it will become inferior from here on out in Cataclysm unless changed...

(Unless you're stacking Mastery Rating over a primary statistic...)

Commentaire de lumpy1337

so can lvl 70s use this meta?

Commentaire de LilGazzi

Question, nowhere on this item does it say it requires level 285 helms or higher to be equipped... Does this mean I can use it in a level 62 eng goggles? Please post back. :3

Commentaire de lawarrior

On PTR they have changed the tooltip to say " increased critical effect" when it used to say "critical damage" so I was just wondering why did they change that? Does this affect the gameplay somehow?

Commentaire de scarryterry25

On the PTR I switched to this meta as a Disc Priest and socketed almost purely red gems. This change allows for heals to get the crit bonus and it only requires red gems.